The Lewin Group, Inc.

The Lewin Group, Inc. (doing business as Lewing Group Inc.), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, is a for-profit health care and human services consulting firm that operates as a prime contractor providing research, program evaluation, data analytics, and technical assistance services to federal health and civilian agencies across 43 customer organizations. The vendor competes in full and open competition without set-asides, anchoring most of its work to indefinite delivery and multiple-award schedule vehicles issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) dominates The Lewin Group's customer concentration and revenue base. CMS accounts for 100 awards (20% of total prime awards) with a combined potential value of $5.25 billion (71% of total portfolio value), led by long-running delivery orders under the Research, Measurement, Assessment, Design, and Analysis (RMADA) 2 and RMADA 3 IDIQs. Representative CMS work includes a $143.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order (January 2024) for States Advancing Ahead Model implementation under RMADA 2, a $121.5 million order (April 2026) for Long-Term Enhanced program technical and operational support under RMADA 2, and a $79.1 million order (April 2026) for implementation and monitoring of the Advancing Chronic Care and Effective, Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) model under RMADA 2. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (HHS) provides secondary concentration with 75 awards worth $913.8 million, primarily for program evaluation and technical assistance work. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Department of Veterans Affairs round out the top customer set, each with distinct contract vehicles and service focuses.

The Lewin Group holds significant vehicle positions anchoring its federal delivery. CMS's RMADA 2 IDIQ carries 17 task orders worth $352.8 million combined potential value. The new RMADA 3 IDIQ (awarded July 2026) carries a $3.5 billion ceiling and runs through July 2031, positioning The Lewin Group for long-term analytic support and technical assistance across CMS innovation and evidence-building functions. HRSA awarded a single-award $344.7 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract (September 2024) for evaluations and evidence-building services across health workforce development, maternal and child health, and community health programs, running through September 2026. The FDA's Biologics Effectiveness and Safety (BEST) Initiative 3 multiple-award IDC carries a $75 million ceiling with task orders for longitudinal healthcare data access and surveillance of biologics. The Administration for Community Living awarded a $75 million multiple-award IDIQ (January 2024) supporting long-term technical assistance and coordination services through January 2029. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS/Federal Supply Schedule GS23F9840H) carries 52 task orders worth $147.6 million, serving as The Lewin Group's unrestricted-competition channel for CMS, VA, and other agencies.

Recent activity shows moderate growth with 12 awards in 2024, one in 2025, and four through early July 2026. The recompete cliff window (next twenty-four months) contains eleven awards with combined potential value of $144.2 million. Typical recent delivery orders reflect two to ten-year performance periods at cost-plus-fixed-fee or firm-fixed-price structures. Representative work includes a $5.7 million MAS delivery order (June 2026) to produce improper payment rates for Federal Exchange and State-Based Exchanges Improper Payment Measurement programs through December 2030; a $3.3 million Administration for Community Living order (September 2024) for Commit to Connect Initiative technical assistance through September 2029; and a $13.3 million order (September 2024) for No Wrong Door Resource Center long-term technical support through September 2029.

The Lewin Group operates predominantly as a prime contractor (99% of awards) with minimal subcontract exposure (1%, or four sub-awards across the portfolio). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor subcontracts an average of 16 percent of total contractor hours to an average of 88 named subcontractors, indicating selective use of subs for specialized capability areas. In fiscal 2024, SCI records show 186 FTEs deployed across $65.6 million in invoiced federal service-contract revenue, representing a median government-paid hourly rate of $163.65 per hour and a range extending to $359.01 per hour at the 90th percentile. The GSA labor portfolio spans eight categories from executive project assistant ($107.56/hr) through senior vice president ($388.41/hr), with no security-cleared labor offered, confirming a civilian health policy and evaluation focus without defense or intelligence components.

Corporate structure identifies The Lewin Group as a child entity of Optuminsight, Inc. (also a UnitedHealth subsidiary), situating it within a large healthcare and insurance enterprise. This parent relationship reinforces The Lewin Group's access to health care data, claims analytics, and health outcomes research capabilities underlying its federal consulting delivery. The vendor's footprint across 490 total awards—99 percent prime work, 16 percent obligated on potential value, and concentrated in administrative and general management consulting (NAICS 541611) and social-sciences research (NAICS 541715)—reflects a specialized health policy research and program evaluation model competing through full open competition on evidence-building and innovation-assessment work for civilian health agencies.